Almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Tag: life
Parting words to graduating students
my advice to you is simple:
find out what you are meant to do and do it,
and find out who you really are, under all the junk that has been attached to you by those who would make you everybody else, and be that.
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what you are meant to do and who you really are are not the same thing:
what you’re meant to do is learned, discovered,
but who you really are has always been there — it is a matter of unlearning who you have been told to be, or told you are, or should be,
until all that is left is the knowledge of who you are and always were: nobody but yourself.